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ezra, yet another government data gap? >> this is as american as having a girlfriend in niagara falls. i think evidence brings us more that brings us together than sets us apart. >> next, project gaydar. want to know if a friend on facebook is gay? two students created a software program to determine your sexual orientation even if you don't post it. the program apparently scans a person's online friends for gender and sexuality and makes a prediction. the analysis seems to work in identifying gay men, jonathan capehart, but was not able to decipher the lesbians or bisexuals. >> i'm not touching that! please! kids, spend your time trying to graduate early. if you want to ask your gaydar, mine has been operational since 1989. >> you probably a hefty charge for that machinery. >> absolutely. >> did you know porn makes you gay? >> i thought porn made you feel lonely. >> that's what representative tom coburn was overheard last weekend saying. quote. >> oh, my god! so that explains it, dylan! >> but for others, it's value voter
ezra, yet another government data gap? >> this is as american as having a girlfriend in niagara falls. i think evidence brings us more that brings us together than sets us apart. >> next, project gaydar. want to know if a friend on facebook is gay? two students created a software program to determine your sexual orientation even if you don't post it. the program apparently scans a person's online friends for gender and sexuality and makes a prediction. the analysis seems to work in...
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sounding off today, the dream team, jonathan capehart, and ezra. you will be smarter and happier if you read their articles. now, the problem with deadlines. since his first day in office the president has been clear on what his intentions are when it comes to guantanamo bay? >> guantanamo bay will be closed no later than one from now. >> robert gates concedes that will not happen. >> and the white house is telling me at least some prisoners will be in guantanamo on january 22nd and beyond. >> they are not focusing on the actual day but making progress toward the end goal. jonathan are they backing themselves into a corner? >> deadlines are brick walls of reality, and they hit this one big time. >> and another self imposed deadline by the president and the democrats in charge, and remember we told health care reform would be wrapped up by august? >> for both the house and the senate to finish their critical work on health care reform to be finish by the august recess. >> here is the picture of the room where moments from now the senate finance comm
sounding off today, the dream team, jonathan capehart, and ezra. you will be smarter and happier if you read their articles. now, the problem with deadlines. since his first day in office the president has been clear on what his intentions are when it comes to guantanamo bay? >> guantanamo bay will be closed no later than one from now. >> robert gates concedes that will not happen. >> and the white house is telling me at least some prisoners will be in guantanamo on january...
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ezra? >> congresswoman, i was curious of the effects if it passes. would there be any role for antitrust insurance -- what could we expect if we see that provision go into law? >> we are not going to have an exchange in each separate state. we will have a national exchange that will be administered on a regional basis. that will help also. but the federal antitrust laws are really designed to make sure that in any state or across state lines, insurance companies are not combining to price fix. we don't know what will happen since they have been exempt all these years, but we know if we allow federal investigations or prohibit this kind of collusoin. >> 76%, that's proving my point. >>> breaking news right now out of the centers for disease control. doctors say many of the folks that day from the h1n1 flu in the united states also had pneumonia. because of that, the cdc is recommending children younger than five and seniors is people with high-risk conditions get a vaccine for pneumonia alon
ezra? >> congresswoman, i was curious of the effects if it passes. would there be any role for antitrust insurance -- what could we expect if we see that provision go into law? >> we are not going to have an exchange in each separate state. we will have a national exchange that will be administered on a regional basis. that will help also. but the federal antitrust laws are really designed to make sure that in any state or across state lines, insurance companies are not combining to...
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ezra klein, five ways to save health care. congressman weiner joins us on why the balk us bill is doa. paying $8 a day for lunch can add up fast. so i'm packing my own lunch now-- for less than $3. thanks to walmart. just two times a week saves my family over $500 a year. save money. live better. walmart. 90s slacker hip-hop. ♪ that can strain your relationships and hurt yourody 'cause we'pride ♪ng a ride ♪ my family over $500 a year. ♪ it's the credit roller coaster ♪ ♪ and as you can see it kinda bites! ♪ ♪ so sing the lyrics with me: ♪ when your debt goes up your score goes down ♪ ♪ when you pay a little off it goes the other way 'round ♪ ♪ it's just the same for everybody, every boy and girl ♪ ♪ the credit roller coaster makes you wanna hurl ♪ ♪ so throw your hands in the air, and wave 'em around ♪ ♪ like a wanna-be frat boy trying to get down ♪ ♪ then bring 'em right back to where your laptop's at... ♪ ♪ log on to free credit report dot com - stat! ♪ vo: free credit score an
ezra klein, five ways to save health care. congressman weiner joins us on why the balk us bill is doa. paying $8 a day for lunch can add up fast. so i'm packing my own lunch now-- for less than $3. thanks to walmart. just two times a week saves my family over $500 a year. save money. live better. walmart. 90s slacker hip-hop. ♪ that can strain your relationships and hurt yourody 'cause we'pride ♪ng a ride ♪ my family over $500 a year. ♪ it's the credit roller coaster ♪ ♪ and as you...
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so ezra, i want to bring you in. but it struck me that the president went straight at that. he went at the exchanges, he went at the competitive problem which is why i wonder representative blackburn, why you're not more satisfied with some of the rhetoric that the president offered up about creating more competitive health insurance. >> he talked about the public option, the problem there is this. >> no, no, representative, my question is -- i know he talked about a lot. what i'm saying he offered explicit rhetoric about health insurance reform. he talked about a national mandate, about national exchanges, he talked about altering -- a tax or some sort of a penalty for those who would seek to charge too much for health insurance. was any of that satisfactory? >> the problem there is the way you come at it. he comes at it with government control. i say let's -- >> government makes the rules. are you suggesting -- who would make the rules? without rules, people cheat. right? we watch that with the banks, we watched that with the car companies. we don't want to continue a proc
so ezra, i want to bring you in. but it struck me that the president went straight at that. he went at the exchanges, he went at the competitive problem which is why i wonder representative blackburn, why you're not more satisfied with some of the rhetoric that the president offered up about creating more competitive health insurance. >> he talked about the public option, the problem there is this. >> no, no, representative, my question is -- i know he talked about a lot. what i'm...
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listed by senator conrad as gold stands, ezra said, all have a level of government intrusion in their systems that would make the average tea partyer wretch. in france, for instance, every legal resident of france gets their health insurance from the government. so kent conrad is citing the huge success and low cost and quality care of government-run health insurance in another country as a way to prove that we shouldn't have government-run health care here. it's like arguing that your neighbor looks awesome and is super healthy after going to the gym all year and what that means for you is you should definitely eat more tv dinners. so we've got senator grassley going to war with himself, saying he's increasingly concerned about the stuff he himself has been advocating for. we've got senator conrad arguing against government-run health care by pointing out how awesome it is, and we've maybe got a winner in senator jim bunning, who "the washington post" reports finished up a big rant about how health reform would trample on american freedom and liberties, and then followed it up by pro
listed by senator conrad as gold stands, ezra said, all have a level of government intrusion in their systems that would make the average tea partyer wretch. in france, for instance, every legal resident of france gets their health insurance from the government. so kent conrad is citing the huge success and low cost and quality care of government-run health insurance in another country as a way to prove that we shouldn't have government-run health care here. it's like arguing that your neighbor...
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ezra, i was in the congress in '93 and '94, and i was working with bob dole. he had a superior plan. the democrats torpedos it because they did not want republicans to get a victory. and bob dole, those were votes put up by democrats -- >> bob dole signed the bill and voted against it. you can't change that fact. >> well, they killed the bill in '93 and '94, because they were worried about the republican alternative. if they had done what the republicans wanted to do in '93 and '94, we would not be in the problem that we are in today. >> the town you are in, is -- are they just playing fun with america's future? >> i hope they are not playing with america's future. but when you listen to the senator's comment from july, you hear all of the comments about how republicans have plans, they have plans and the president doesn't want to negotiate with them. but we only hear criticisms of what the democrats have proposed. yet no solutions from the republican -- wait, wait, wait. >> that's not accurate. >> wait. it would be great once there is a criticism specifically
ezra, i was in the congress in '93 and '94, and i was working with bob dole. he had a superior plan. the democrats torpedos it because they did not want republicans to get a victory. and bob dole, those were votes put up by democrats -- >> bob dole signed the bill and voted against it. you can't change that fact. >> well, they killed the bill in '93 and '94, because they were worried about the republican alternative. if they had done what the republicans wanted to do in '93 and '94,...
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meanwhile "the washington post" ezra klein unearthed a fund raising letter sent out by senator chuck grassley of iowa. he is the top republican on the health care in the senate and with senator enzi was supposedly working on a bipartisan bill with democrats. there you have it. the political blessing of obviousness. two of the republicans who had been gifted, this inexplicable role in shaping policy because they're the most reasonable guys the democrats could find to negotiate with? two of those people are spreading the kill old people conspiracy theory and they are raising money on their prospects for defeating obama care. the white house now apparently gets it. thanks to the gift of obviousness. we all understand that this is not going to be a bipartisan thing. the real question, really important question moving forward is what can democrats really get done on this age-old american political problem if they've got zero republican votes? joining us now is a man that caucuses with the democrats but is a proud independent from the state of vermont, senator bernie sanders. senator, than
meanwhile "the washington post" ezra klein unearthed a fund raising letter sent out by senator chuck grassley of iowa. he is the top republican on the health care in the senate and with senator enzi was supposedly working on a bipartisan bill with democrats. there you have it. the political blessing of obviousness. two of the republicans who had been gifted, this inexplicable role in shaping policy because they're the most reasonable guys the democrats could find to negotiate with?...
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. >> frank louis aversano >> ezra aviles. >> samuel ayala. >> arlene t. babakitis. >> use that's bacchus. >> john james. >> andrew j. bailey. >> brett t. bailey. >> garnett edward bailey. >> tatyana bakalinskaya >> michael s. baksh >> sharon balkcom >> michael andrew bane >> kathy bantis >> gerard jean baptiste >> walter baran >> gerard a. barbara >> and my brother. whether it's eight years or 800 years, you'll never be forgotten. >> i'm honored to be here today on behalf of the volunteers of goldwater cole hospital. >> ivan kirillos. >> victor daniel barbosa >> colleen ann barkow
. >> frank louis aversano >> ezra aviles. >> samuel ayala. >> arlene t. babakitis. >> use that's bacchus. >> john james. >> andrew j. bailey. >> brett t. bailey. >> garnett edward bailey. >> tatyana bakalinskaya >> michael s. baksh >> sharon balkcom >> michael andrew bane >> kathy bantis >> gerard jean baptiste >> walter baran >> gerard a. barbara >> and my brother. whether it's eight...